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“They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.”
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“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“I would prefer not to.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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